Wandering Along the Path: Right Speech

The rain yesterday was like a blessing, and the plants and trees are newly washed today. We're hoping Tuesday brings more rain. I'm remembering seeing the Anasazi sites in the southwest and the speculation about why those people disappeared, one theory being drought drove them away. A thousand years of trading and coexistence destroyed by drought. I can vividly imagine it now. We perhaps are the end people for a once flourishing area squandered by ego and arrogance. We determined to expand, tear down forests, divert waters and build in desert. Now we will migrate, but to where? I know I won't see it, but I can imagine it. Honoring nature and the land has always been the wise option, but wisdom is in short supply in our culture and others. We have no far reaching sight to guide us. Accepting less instead of wanting more is counter to our very being at this point. We need a whole lot of people for role models and guides to this new, diminished yet more balanced world. I hope January 20 brings us some.